Razor razor vs. St. Conor

After 12 hours of sleep, we felt refreshed and went to our BUNAC orientation in the morning. For those of you who don't know, BUNAC is the program who helped us get our work visas and at orientation they told us everything we need to know about finding jobs, house hunting, taxes, mobile phones, basically anything you can think of. The girls who work there are really nice and are there to help us if we ever need advice (and we have definitely already taken them up on that as one girl gave all of us resume advice).

The last few days have been an epic journey of ups and downs to find a job and a house. We've mostly split up to hit the streets and drop off our resumes ("CVs") to different places. Erin and Sarah are mostly looking for restaurant jobs so far, while Erica has been trying to get hired as a hotel receptionist. We've all also applied to jobs online, but unfortunately none of us have heard back from anywhere yet. However, Erin and Sarah both applied to a temp agency and have interviews with them early next week, so fingers crossed that we do well because those jobs are supposed to pay pretty good. The interview is supposed to consist of a computer skills test that a monkey could pass, so we should be ok.

Housing has been a bit stressful. As a group of 3, our options are very limited. Dublin is divided into the north and south by the Liffey River, and most of the touristy things are in the south, meaning that we'll probably live in the north because it's cheaper. First we went to a 3 bedroom house (2 twins, 1 single) owned by a funny Irishman named Conor (who we later nicknamed "St. Conor") and the house was really cute and nice. But, the biggest problem was that it was located about an hour walk from the city center, and we want to be about half that distance. Regrettably, we had to decline. Today we looked at another house owned by a guy named Ray (whose email was razor razor) and when we got there only 2 of the 3 beds were left, so that was pretty much a wasted trip. We've sent a lot of emails and made a bunch of phone calls, and at the moment only have 1 lead. On the way to look at it, we got stuck in the rain and were completely soaked from head to toe by the time we got home. It didn't help that we missed our turn and walked about 30 mins out of the way. Anyway, it's a 2 bedroom house, and we would have a triple ensuite room. The rent is pretty good because it has everything included (utilities, laundry, internet) and is in a cute neighborhood about a 25-30 min walk of the city center. The biggest negative is that it's an extremely small house, and we don't know who the other 2 roommates will be yet (which could potentially be a positive, but it's hard to say). At the moment this place looks the most promising, but we have until Monday to decide so will spend the weekend looking at other options. If nothing works out, we may have to face the possibility of splitting up and all living on our own, but we're hoping it won't come down to that.

We were just talking to some French guys in the hostel, and they showed us this link that can only speak for itself. As a preface, it's supposedly the hippest dance in French nightclubs at the moment called "Yelle".
http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/yelle/video/x2oflu_exclu-yelle-acdg-tepr-remix-alterna_music